Cohen examines some 100 instances where people sentenced to death were later exonerated, most of them ultimately proven innocent of the crimes for which they were condemned.This book is a must-read for those concerned with the inequities of our criminal justice system

These are the stories of people imprisoned for years before finally proving their innocence. This collection of photographs and oral histories of fifty men and women gathered from across the United States forcefully describes a judicial system most of us would not recognize, where corrupt prosecutors, sleeping lawyers, bent cops,
and jailhouse snitches subvert the most fundamental principles of justice.